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Josh Leung-Gagné – AERA Open, 2023
Though schools do not track in Brazil, I find that racial classroom segregation in Brazil is on par with recent estimates from North Carolina high schools (Clotfelter et al., 2020). How does racial classroom segregation occur without tracking, and in a supposed "racial paradise," no less? Using national, student-level data spanning from…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary Education, Grade 5, Grade 9
de Mello, Luiz; Hoppe, Mombert – OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2005
For many years, Brazil lagged behind other middle-income countries in terms of school enrolment rates. But since 1998 policies have aimed at bridging this gap, in particular, with the implementation of FUNDEF, a fund for financing sub-national spending on primary and lower-secondary education. Using state- and municipality-level data during…
Descriptors: Municipalities, Foreign Countries, Educational Attainment, Enrollment Rate